Democratic vs Sovereign - What's the difference?
democratic | sovereign |
Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
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(lb) Relating to a political party so called; usually, Democratic.
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Exhibiting social equality, egalitarian (see
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
Exercising power of rule.
Exceptional in quality.
Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.v:
* (rfdate) Dryden
* (rfdate) South
Having supreme, ultimate power.
Princely; royal.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
* (rfdate) Hooker
A monarch; the ruler of a country.
* Jefferson
One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33? standard bottles.
Any butterfly of the tribe , as the (ursula) and the viceroy.
As adjectives the difference between democratic and sovereign
is that democratic is democratic while sovereign is exercising power of rule.As a noun sovereign is
a monarch; the ruler of a country.democratic
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Alternative forms
* democratick (archaic'': antedates spelling changes recommended and popularized by ''et al. )Adjective
(en adjective)online Oxford).
Derived terms
* nondemocratic * quasidemocratic * semidemocratic * German Democratic RepublicReferences
* ----sovereign
English
(wikipedia sovereign)Adjective
(en adjective)- sovereign nation
- The soueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine / She pownded small, and did in peeces bruze, / And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, / Into his wound the iuyce thereof did scruze
- a sovereign remedy
- Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.
- most sovereign name
- We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.
Derived terms
* sovereignlySynonyms
* autonomous * supremeNoun
(en noun)- No question is to be made but that the bed of the Mississippi belongs to the sovereign , that is, to the nation.